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bklynrecca on 12 January 2009

http://loot-ninja.com/2009/01/12/white-knight-chronicles-has-trumped-mgs4-in-japanese-ps3-sales/

White Knight Chronicles Has Trumped MGS4 in Japanese PS3 Sales

By Yaris Gutierrez | Posted in Loot Ninja | Tagged MGS4, PS3, White Knight Chronicles

How do you know that the Japanese are RPG-obsessive? Uh, because for some strange reason White Knight Chronicles has outsold Metal Gear Solid 4 in Japanese software sales despite its horrid reviews from Famitsu (who scored the game 27/40 - Haze received higher praise). Not saying the game sucks in any way - I haven’t played it myself. But outselling MGS4 is a big deal to me. It is one of the only games that had me crying a bit aside from Final Fantasy X.  Just a bit.

I’m not going to degrade White Knight Chronicles, though, regardless of what Famitsu says. I’m still going to get the game and try my hardest to savor the taste of an RPG touching the PS3’s foundation. I will force myself to enjoy it simply because I’ve had high expectations for this game as I did for Blue Dragon, sadly. Although whether or not White Knight Chronicles will sell hardware here in the states as it did in Japan is truly unknown. But I am expecting solid sales on the home front only because PS3/RPG fans haven’t had the chance to embrace this genre in contrast to the PS2.

Will I bad-mouth the game if it isn’t to my expectations? Bet your ass I am. I will take the Blu-ray disc, slam it on my nearest table, and continuously head-butt it beyond belief until either the game or my skull cracks first. But, again, I know the game will kick ass… at least I hope it will for the sake of my over-sized cranium.



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darthdevidem01 on 12 January 2009

HOW DARE PEOPLE MAKE FALSE NEWS STORIES & INSULT THE BEST GAME EVER!



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darthdevidem01 on 12 January 2009

bump



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bklynrecca on 12 January 2009

its hardware numbers for ps3 meaning it pushed more consoles than MGS4



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outlawauron on 12 January 2009

This is so misleading. WKC had the holidays whereas MGS 4 was released in June.

What MGS 4 did was much harder.



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darthdevidem01 on 12 January 2009

@bklyn

but it dint

MGS4 took ps3 to 70K +



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noname2200 on 12 January 2009
outlawauron said:
This is so misleading. WKC had the holidays whereas MGS 4 was released in June.

True, but that also means that MGS4 had less competition than this game. It also means that MGS4 has had more time to rack up sales, and if people were truly interested in the game they would buy it during the holidays, despite its earlier release (see: Evergreen Titles).

More to the point, MGS4's Japanese sales are on track to reach those of its three console counterparts (assuming that the remaining 200k show up after the price drop).

While what little I've read tells me that White Knight isn't too impressive*, that doesn't make this any less of an accomplishment. If this news is correct, White Knight Chronicles has passed not just MGS4, but every other PS3 game as well.

Credit where credit's due, and all that.

*I really haven't read too much about it, so if that statement is incorrect, forgive my ignorance.



deathgod33 on 12 January 2009

wait wks hasnt passed msg4 in sales yet or has it caused a greater hardware bump for ps3. this article isnt true. but both games are terrific anyways.



 

 

 

 

outlawauron on 12 January 2009
noname2200 said:
outlawauron said:
This is so misleading. WKC had the holidays whereas MGS 4 was released in June.

True, but that also means that MGS4 had less competition than this game. It also means that MGS4 has had more time to rack up sales, and if people were truly interested in the game they would buy it during the holidays, despite its earlier release (see: Evergreen Titles).

More to the point, MGS4's Japanese sales are on track to reach those of its three console counterparts (assuming that the remaining 200k show up after the price drop).

While what little I've read tells me that White Knight isn't too impressive*, that doesn't make this any less of an accomplishment. If this news is correct, White Knight Chronicles has passed not just MGS4, but every other PS3 game as well.

Credit where credit's due, and all that.

*I really haven't read too much about it, so if that statement is incorrect, forgive my ignorance.

Famitsu gave it 7.25/10 (average of review scores), but people seem to enjoy it a lot. Many also question Famitsu because most of the issues they mentioned that were negative were quite silly to deduct 2 or 3 points for. (no voice chat)



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ceaser92 on 12 January 2009

fake,
lock thread please